Today the 103rd anniversary of the departure of the leader Mohamed Farid, as he left on November 15, 1919, who is a politician, journalist and lawyer from the Egyptian National Movement, was born in January 1868 who joined the Law School and then worked as a lawyer next to a course as a historian, the latest great mutations in the political and social movement in Egypt was the first to establish a union for workers in Egypt in 1909.
He was born to a wealthy family and stopped his wealth to serve the Egyptian national struggle and the liberation from the English occupation, one of the senior Egyptian national leaders in the early twentieth century.
Farid was one of the most prominent intellectuals who are passionate about the revolutionary thought and struggle, and his intellectual and cultural inclinations embodied in a group of his books as the book “From Egypt to Egypt”, the book “History of the Ottoman Empire”, the book “The History of the Romanians” and other books, in addition to that he contributed to the creation of The brigade newspaper, and also created with a group of his friends a scientific magazine called “The Encyclopedia”.
In addition to his intellectual intellectual struggle; Farid was known on a broader scale for his national motor struggle, as he was fighting for the homeland and his freedom at home and abroad. Where it was always talking and announcing that Egypt’s demands are: evacuation and constitution.
Mohamed Farid was imprisoned for 6 months in accordance with the Publications Law, where he wrote an introduction to a poetry office entitled “The Impact of Poetry in Raising Nations”, he was exiled outside the country in 1912, but he did not stop defending the rights of the Egyptian nation abroad, as happened at the Peace Conference in Geneva General 1912 and Hague in 1913.
Farid status is the basis of the trade union movement in Egypt; He established the first union for workers in 1909.
He called for the status of legislation for workers that take into account their interests, and to them misery, ignorance and exhaustion. He founded the first commercial union in 1909 and called for a boycott of the government. Egypt knew on his hands the organized popular demonstrations – he was calling for – as he was able to mobilize it, and to mobilize people towards one demand; As happened when the palace and the government demanded a constitution to Egypt.
The leader died on November 15, 1919 in Berlin after he spent his fortune to support the national struggle and liberation from colonial Large popular funeral,.
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